Washington, D.C.—We have a
full-blown crisis! We are being told
that government must suddenly regulate and register the well over two million
drones used by hobbyists, photographers, filmmakers and other ordinary
civilians.
For over two years now we’ve
heard the media tell us how these little pesky devices will bring down
airliners, invade privacy and destroy our way of life. Pulling the puppet strings of the media has
been the FAA and DOT.
Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
said it best back when he was Obama’s Chief of Staff, “Never let a good crisis
go to waste!” This drone crisis is
nothing more that a manufactured one.
The FAA has showered the
media with their “facts” in that they claim there are well over 700 cases of
near misses with airliners and other conventional aircraft.
Missing from these statistics
are a single fatality, serious injury or even a report of notable property
damage. Because drones have driven news
stories like wildfire a child needing a Band-Aid on his nose from a drone
propeller is automatically a national news story.
I guess nobody in the media
noticed that there is not a single incident where a multi-rotor camera drone
every touched any conventional aircraft, ever.
More importantly there is not
a single identified suspect, prosecution, captured drone, video or even a
photograph involving these near miss reports!
Nearly everyone has a video camera in their pockets today but not a
single image exists of drone misconduct?
Now there is a sudden rush to
regulate and register every little drone in America! We are being told that this is being done in
the name of public safety. Is it about
safety or just a case of government selling us on more government? As you read this you know the answer, we’ve
been had!
The reason for the sudden rush
is simple. As each year drags on and
there are no significant accidents to report or legitimate cases of privacy
invasions discovered the need for regulation is non-existent. The taxpayers can’t then be fleeced over this
manufactured impending doom.
Imagine the number of FAA and
DOT agents that will be needed to register and inspect every drone in
America? Politicians will be putting their
relatives, friends and supporters in well paying government drone chasing
jobs!
Then they will all take
credit for the fact that there are no deaths, injuries or property damage as a
result of their comprehensive drone enforcement activities! That’s how our government works!
In the meantime the morons in
suits running our shrinking news organizations that helped to create this Drone
Hysteria must continue spending millions leasing helicopters and crews to get
images. Using drones would only cost a
tiny percentage of what they pay now.
Conventional pilots run the
FAA. They are all aware that drones will
be eliminating a significant percentage of their jobs. They have an obvious conflict of interest
here. It’s in their interest to slow the
drone technology down as much as they can.
FAA regulations were all
written in blood. They are based on
actual deadly aircraft accidents. When
it came to our little drones the FAA departed from reactive regulation to one
of prior restraint. That’s
un-American! So is the FAA stranglehold
on the commercial use of a drone.
Will we wake up in time to
keep the FAA in check? I doubt it.
I don't know the goof's name. I heard an interview on WBEZ, the Chicago NPR station, the moderator referred to civilian drones as "weapons of mass destruction." Years ago they were called model aircraft, now, stick a camera on it and it's the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor again (Animal House reference, I know history pretty well).
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